Abraham

From 1881 onward Abraham was consistently treated as a prophetic type of God, first described as the heavenly Father and later explicitly as Jehovah God or the Greater Abraham. The identification remained stable through the Russell, Rutherford and Knorr periods. During the 1960s and 1970s it was repeatedly applied to particular prophetic scenes, especially Abraham's offering of Isaac and Jesus' illustration of the rich man and Lazarus. In 1976 the standing identification was again stated directly: Abraham was used as a type of Jehovah God. The same identification continued under Franz in 1978 and 1980, where Jehovah was called the Greater or Heavenly Abraham. No verified reversal or abandonment was found through 1980.